Atlanta Falcons: No one should be shocked Todd Gurley’s health is a question mark
Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator turned heads today when answering a question honestly about running back Todd Gurley.
Of course, Atlanta Falcons fans took to Twitter to voice their disproval with this revelation. However, if you have been paying attention, this should not come as a shock to you. This was the main reason that many questioned the $5 million one year deal that the Falcons signed him to.
Sure, you aren’t paying him a top dollar but given his health status, it is a lot of money.
The biggest reason that his health issues have mainly gone unchecked around Atlanta is that he played at UGA. Both the Atlanta Falcons and UGA share a large majority of their fan bases and those fans were simply happy to have a big name UGA product coming home.
However, if you were able to look past that, what you saw is concerning. Todd Gurley’s 2019 season was one that saw him regress a lot over his 2018 MVP type season. Even then, as the Rams made it to the Super Bowl, Gurley himself only had 14 combined carries in the NFC Championship game and Super Bowl.
Dirk Koetter in a media conference call said about Todd Gurley today: "The main question, that no one seems to know, is what is his health status?"
— Mike Conti (@MikeConti929) May 14, 2020
His knee issues plagued him coming out of UGA in 2015 and was the reason he dropped out of the Top 5 of the 2015 NFL draft.
So when Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter says that Todd Gurley’s health status is a huge question, he is being honest and it has been a question his entire career.
Falcons Twitter abuzz over Dirk Koetter's Todd Gurley comments. I think we're reading too much into this. Koetter didn't make that statement willy nilly & I doubt he said it mistakenly as in he wishes he hadn't. Just a guy being honest in this new world.https://t.co/tHxxRbvf66
— Knox Bardeen (@knoxbardeen) May 14, 2020
Not having daily access to players right now is also hampering how teams evaluate and hold offseason activities which makes this question an even bigger mystery. There won’t be any minicamp or chances to see Gurley on a field until we get closer to camp in August.
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Hate the answer by Koetter all you want, but it is the answer everyone should have seen coming given all the information we have.